VIDEO Trailer for Le Passé (The Past) which debuted at Cannes

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Farhadi left his native Iran to film The Past and it has already received rave reviews.

Variety describe it as 'an exquisitely sculpted family melodrama in which the end of a marriage is merely the beginning of something else, an indelible tapestry of carefully engineered revelations and deeper human truths.'

Stars must be panicking about their jewellery after ,ore than $1 million worth of jewels due to be lent to movie stars at the Cannes film festival were stolen from a hotel room in the French Riviera town, a police source said.

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The jewels were in the safe of the room rented by an employee of Chopard, a luxury jeweller, the source said on condition of anonymity.

The incident at the hotel in central Cannes took place on the night of Thursday to Friday as the festival got under way, drawing thousands of movie stars, film industry executives and journalists to the fabled resort.

Meanwhile it was announced Scarlett Johansson will make her directorial debut with an adaptation of Truman Capote's first novel, Summer Crossing.

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A publicist for the Avengers actress confirmed Thursday that Johansson will direct the long-lost book.'Summer Crossing wasn't published until 2005, after the manuscript was recovered.

Financing for the film was assembled in Cannes. Capote's novel is about a 17-year-old debutant who, during a summer alone in 1945 New York, strikes up a romance with a Jewish valet parking attendant.

Johansson next appears in the independent film,'Don Juan," in which she co-stars with writer-director Joseph Gordon-Levitt.

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In one of the most high-profile Kickstarter campaigns, the'Scrubs" actor lobbied his fans to contribute money. The film's 38,000-plus backers earn various levels of rewards, from a copy of the script to a part in the film.

On his Kickstarter page, Braff denied that he was doing anything to undermine the spirit of crowd-funding. He said the additional funds would allow him to make the film as designed, within a budget of $5-6 million.